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A telling quotation from the 2004 program evaluation on charter schools in the United States.  The failure to offer something comprehensively different to that which already exists can probably be held as the number one failure of the structure.  If there is no quantifiable difference in instructional strategies between Charater Schools and traditional forms of schooling then why support the the higher cost model during economic downturns?


"Instructional Strategies. While charter schools have the opportunity to use alternative instructional strategies (e.g., distance learning), 91 percent of the charter schools surveyed in 2001-02 used classroom based instruction as their primary instructional delivery method"


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